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knows that it is worse for the man who inflicts 

 wrong than for the man who suffers wrong; and 

 with him the perplexity is that God should permit 

 sin arid suffering to exist at all. Now, when the 

 perplexity of the Israelite has been cleared away 

 by the revelation that it shall not be so for ever; 

 and when chiefly in consequence of this very reve- 

 lation the more deeply spiritual mind of the 

 Christian has awakened to a deeper difficulty which 

 the Israelite did not feel ; it is impossible to believe 

 that He who is the same yesterday, to-day, and for 

 ever, who answered the Israelite by declaring that 

 the triumph of iniquity shall not continue without 

 end, should answer the perplexity of the Christian 

 by declaring that the existence of sin and suffering 

 shall continue without end. 



NOTE A. 



THE " FIRSTFRUITS " AND THE "FIRSTBORN." 



IN reference to the remarks on the doctrine of the 

 " firstfruits " on pages 97-99, I have much pleasure 

 in speaking with unqualified praise of The Second 

 Death and the Restitution of all Things, by the Eev. 

 Andrew Jukes, especially that part of the work 

 which treats of the typical and symbolic system of 



